Who am I?

Everyone asks themselves at one time in their life: Who Am I?

Everyone at one time in their lives has asked the question, “Who am I?” Its a natural thing to wonder about. As individuals we all want to know ourselves better and understand why we do the things we do and the first question we ask is, “Who am I?”

The sad thing is that most people do not know the answer, and in fact, its worse than that. Many people believe the wrong things about who they are and this causes numerous problems in their lives.

Have you ever asked, Who Am I?

If so, let me give a little insight and understanding as to who you are.

The Hubble space telescope was designed and created to act as an orbiting satellite above the atmosphere, clouds and pollution that blocks our earthbound telescopes view of the celestial heavens.

I’m not sure if you remember what happened when they first turned it on.  Something was terribly wrong-everything was fuzzy.

After doing a little research they discovered that the company that manufactured the lens made it to the wrong specifications. It was off by 1/50^th of a human hair! But with a marvel of engineering, a budget far greater than the $299 per eye that LASIK surgery supposedly costs and with another trip to space, the Hubbell received corrective lenses.

They then set about working on one of its primary objectives-to see how far it could see.  They pointed to a dark spot inside the Big Dipper-a place where they could see no stars.  They zoomed the lens in as far as it would go and left the shutter open for 10 whole days to gather in as much light as possible.

Now this is a very small area of space.  Just take your forefinger and your thumb and imagine holding a single grain of sand.  Then stretch your arm out as far as it will go and that grain of sand will cover the amount of sky that the Hubbell was looking at.

What it saw changed our world.

It took an amazing photograph. For years before that photo was taken science had proclaimed with absolute authority that, “The universe was 4.5 billion years old. Close the book! There is no need for further discussion. We have all the answers.”

That photo made them reopen the book.

Do you know what it saw?  It saw one star.  A star so big that it defies all our knowledge of physics.  But it also saw something far more amazing.  It saw 1500 galaxies comprised of well over 50 billion stars.

Now science proclaims with equal authority that the universe is 13.5 billion years old.  They still got it wrong!

We live in an Infinite Universe

Why? Because the universe is infinite!  Suppose we could take the Hubbell and point it at one of the dark spaces in between those 1500 galaxies.  We can’t do it, because were at its limitations but you suppose we could for a moment.  Suppose we had a single grain of sand at 100,000,000,000 light-years arm’s length away. What would it see?

It would see another 1500 galaxies and 50 billion stars.  You see the universe is infinite-there is no end.  We’re not talking only in the direction of the Big Dipper but we are talking that direction, in this direction, and that direction and that direction.  In every direction it goes on and on forever.

How many grains of sand would it take to cover our sky? Science now states that there are more stars than there are grains of sand on our earth. In fact they redid the Hubble Deep Field experiment in 2003 after its last upgrade, but in a different part of space.  Instead of 1500 galaxies, it saw well over 10,000 galaxies and more than 1 Trillion Stars!

Infinity is difficult for us to comprehend-something that doesn’t have a beginning or an end.  Everything for us as a start and finish.  We begin a project and we end a project.  We are born and we die.

But here’s something even more amazing-not only is the universe infinite but you are an infinite being!  You have always existed!  There is a part of you that has not, and indeed cannot be created.

That is the first thing you have to understand in answering the question, “Who am I?“

Now I’m not talking about reincarnation because that is a false principle.  We have lived in different states of being but we only get one chance in mortality to prove and improve who we are. I am also not promoting that you evolved from lower life forms, for that would not make sense.

This may be against everything you’ve ever been taught, understood or believed, but it’s true.  As Obi-Wan Kenobi said to Luke, “search your feelings and you will know the truth of what I’ve said”.

Now as amazing as that revelation is, here’s the thing I want to focus on-you have infinite potential.  There is no end to what you can become or accomplish.

Sometimes people ask me, “Well if that is true, then how come I’m not accomplishing everything I want to?  How come I’m stuck where I am? How come I keep making the same mistakes over and over again?”

One way to explain this is to relate a story as told by Jack Canfield.  Soon after an elephant is born, the elephant trainers will tie a rope around its foot and attach it to a stake in the ground.  The baby will tug and pull and struggle for some time because it’s not strong enough to break the rope.  Eventually it will give up and accept its lot in life. For the rest of its life all the elephant trainers have to do to keep the elephant in one place is to tie a flimsy rope around his foot and attach to a stake in the ground.

The 5 ton behemoth could easily break the rope or easily pull the stake out of the ground but it doesn’t believe that it can.  It’s been conditioned since it was a child to accept this limitation.

One of the saddest things I ever see is when a parent yells at a child, “You’re so stupid!  Why did you do that?  Who do you think you are?”

In reality, that child is an infinite being too, but they just tied a rope around his leg. Is that somewhat like you when you say, “Who am I? What am I doing? How come I am not succeeding?”

Would like to know a simple way to improve your infinite potential?  Would you like to feel better right now, without waiting? Would you like to lift your spirits and feel more optimistic? Would you like to learn how to be happy? If so, then I issue you a challenge: find someone today and give them a sincere compliment.  Not a superficial one like, “What a nice dress,” but one from the heart. Notice something they have worked hard on and put thought into. Search for something out of the ordinary.

Watch them light up by your compliment and feel good that someone recognized their actions. Their eyes will twinkle and their smile will beam. And also watch how good you feel inside.  One secret for improving your infinite potential is by helping someone else improve theirs. A sincere compliment is a very simple and easy way to improve yourself.

While this post will not fully answer the question “who am I?” I am hoping that it will have helped clear away some of the atmosphere, clouds and pollution in your mind and help improve your vision as to who you really are.

“Who am I?” You are an infinite being and you have infinite potential.

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